One of my favorite maps from concluding yr was Bert Spaan's Netherland's Building Age Map. His map, created for the Waag website, visualized the historic catamenia of a staggering 9,866,539 buildings inwards the Netherlands.
All of the buildings inwards the Netherlands are colored on the map past times their historic catamenia of construction. You tin fifty-fifty click on whatsoever of the nearly ten 1000000 buildings to thought their exact yr of construction. When y'all conduct a edifice on the map y'all tin besides thought details close its solid reason surface area together with function.
Bert Spaan has instantly created roughly other map for Waag, which visualizes rural solid reason utilisation inwards the Netherlands afterward World War II. Mansholt, Landscape inwards Perspective is a even out map which explores how the rural landscape inwards the Netherlands changed during Sicco Mansholt's term equally Minister for Agriculture.
Sicco Mansholt was a Dutch pol who became Minister of Agriculture afterward the Second World War. While Minister of Agriculture Mansholt revolutionized agriculture inwards the Netherlands together with initiated solid reason reclamation inwards many areas of the country.
As y'all progress through the even out of Mansholt's initiatives equally Minister of Agriculture y'all tin thought maps of roughly of the rural landscapes which saw dramatic alter nether his term of office. The maps include a solid reason utilisation layer which let y'all to thought the agricultural or recreational utilisation for each packet of land. The solid reason parcels on the map are colored to betoken the type of crop which they are used for.
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